Aqua-Soft Forumsyeah she checked msconfig too ... 
And what worked was the icons on safe mode, they displayed properly there! as soon as she came back to normal windows, the icons were acting up again
[help]3 Icons In My Computer Not Showing Correctly
First of all, thank you ALL for trying to help me! You don't know what this means to me! 
Wizard, I'm on WindowsXP Professional SP1. I do have Administrative rights, and every other icon displays PERFECTLY. Even those damned 3 icons display correctly in Safe Mode.
Check the pictures on the first post. When I open "My Computer", I see the first image. When I hit F5, for just second, I see the other icons (the correct ones from Figure 2.) and then it goes back to the Unknown File ones. It's like it was a... "mask" or something.
About the drivers for my card, I'm afraid that my old SiS Apollo 3D Thrill has no new drivers. I have the newest.
And I might add that everything was working properly until not so long ago. About a day or two. I don't know what triggered it. =/
I had a similiar problem once. Some icons would never change. No matter what i did, they wouldnt change. And the bad thing was, i never got it to work, i had to format my whole drive, and reinstall :/
But here are some things you can try:
1. Is it just with your user the icons are broken? Try making a new user, and change the icon there.
2. In safe mode, windows uses no 3rd party drivers, so for eksample, try to download older drivers for hardware that you have, and install them instead.
I dont know if any of these will work, its just that it helped me out before some times. Good luck! 
i'll try to chime in on this too... if you have system restore on, why not try one of the restore points from a day before you noticed this happening.
You could try Axailis IconWorkshop. I did some research and found out that only a few people had a problem similar to this, but not exactly, their icons changed back permanently. I have had a nice experience with this IconWorkshop, but so have other people with Icon Packager.
But if your relentless, are you running any scheduled tasks, because for some unknown, it can cause problems with icons.
Ok download a Free trial of Microangelo5.5 or above and DUMP the Cache then Reboot this should Replace all Icons ive did this before as well
install it and launch Display and go to advance and choose Dump damaged Cache
Reboot
Hi Myuu.EXE, sorry to here about this strange problem. I do have a suggestion (more of a long shot) - it involves using RegEdit (use Run to open this) if you don't mind editing the registry 
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Some programs manual edit the drive icon and lable being used in explorer using a registry entry. On deleting the program it may not remove the entries it made in the registry and point to icons no longer present in that path. Try the following rememdy (it's only a rememdy if it works though 
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- First, explore and expand the following key path >
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons
- Second, check for any keys with the same drive letter as those with missing icons (if there're no keys named A, C or D then this isn't the problem)
- Thirdly, if there are any matching keys then remove them (unless you want to keep any custom drive label or icon they might be refering to)
- Lastly, you may have to restart you computer for the changes to take effect (I don't think you'll need to rebuild your icon cache - though you might have to try if it still doesn't update)
* If you can't find the keys named A, C & D and the problem persists you might want to try using the above but instead create the keys A, C & D and assign them further keys DefaultIcon - specifying the default value as the full path to the icon you want to display (should be C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,6 (floppy) same path for 8 (HDD) and 11 (CDROM)). Hopefully this will over-ride the problem - if not correct it.
Hope this was helpful and you manage to fix the problem .
Don't know if you've tried this already, but these keys should control those drive icons:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons\6 (Floppy)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons\8 (Hard Drive)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons\11 (CD)
If those don't exist, create a new string value with that number as the name, and the full path to the icon file, a comma, and the icon number within the file (0 is usually fine unless it's a big icon library), e.g.: "%systemroot%\resources\themes\gant\devices\cd drive.ico,0"
Now, that may not work for the Optical Drive, in which case you can modify/create a different set of values. That's probably easier to illustrate as a reg file. Here's the text for mine:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\D]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon]
@="%systemroot%\\resources\\themes\\GANT\\Devices\\CD drive.ico,0"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\D\DefaultLabel]
@="My Burner"
Set those values, rebuild your icon cache, and reboot, and your drives should look the way you want them to.
HTH
Nice one Toby - I think your example make my instructions much more clear , Thanks.
p.s. If the icons still remain as they are then I'm stumped >.<.
Originally posted by CaRrIcK@Nov 12 2003, 06:43 PMNice one Toby - I think your example make my instructions much more clear
p.s. If the icons still remain as they are then I'm stumped >.<.
i agree if the icons do not revert Im Lost as well !!
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You all are great. ^^
Now, I'll go try some of the methods, included the registry ones. I hope I can solve this. It's beginning to be annoying! ^^;;;
Thanks again to all of you!
*wuv some more*
Okay, I found something that smells fishy in the Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideMyComputerIcons
Inside there, there is a key:
{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} REG_DWORD , with the Hex Value 1
Anyone knows what this is about?
Originally posted by Myuu.EXE@Nov 12 2003, 07:13 PMOkay, I found something that smells fishy in the Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideMyComputerIcons
Inside there, there is a key:
{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} REG_DWORD , with the Hex Value 1
Anyone knows what this is about?
Never noticed that one before, but I have it in mine as well. I do know that that's the CLSID for the Control Panel, though.
Strange ? ive never seen that have you ran a virus check ?
So that key must determine wether the Control Panel icon is visible or not on My Computer... interesting. But not useful. =/
*keeps on looking*
So that key must determine wether the Control Panel icon is visible or not on My Computer... interesting. But not useful. =/
Absolutely right, the HKEY_CURRENT_USER has the exact same key that controls wether your user account sees the Control Panel in My Computer. The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE one is the default for setting up new accounts :smartass:.
There are alot of things that 'smell fishy' in the registry - unfortunately too little is properly documented (not to mention pesky little programs that leave rubbish every where).
You may have to backup your system and re-install to solve the problem - it's not really a solution, more of a last resort 
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p.s. I addore your website and the sigs, tags and avatars. Nice work (Y).
I was thinking about updating mine after reading the 'Who Has The Best Avatar?' debate .
Hehe, another one! ^^;;;
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(But I'm cute, so nyah! )
Kinda forgot the link, if you wanted to provide one.
(But I'm cute, so nyah!
I would say prove it, but, I would just get slapped. :goku's job:
I'm afraid I have to agree, I forget who said it, but a clean install would be up for do. If you can backup everything, do it. I just think that this seems far too complicated to fix. I'm even getting stressed out. Look, I have gray hair!!
Try this also. It was a fix in non-SP1 but there is a chance it wight work for you.
Open the Regedit
Go to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\explorer.exe\Drives\
You will see each of the drive on your machine. For each of the folders (drives) add New -> Key and name it "DefaultIcon" with capitals and without quotes. Now modify the string, byt double clicking it, and add the path to your desired icon.
It may work, hopefully. Good luck.
Belive me, I would make a clean install, but after my last bad experience with Linux, I've decided that I'll NEVER take that road, unless my computer's stability depends on it. 
Anyway, I just need to find out what the hell is trying to "mask" the icons for me. I've already removed DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar and ObjectDock... I don't have any other program that could do THAT... in fact, those programs never did that in the first place. It's just too weird...
But if you all want to call it quits, it's ok. You've tried your best to help me. Now I guess I'm on my own. Thanks again, everyone.
Originally posted by wizard@Nov 13 2003, 01:21 AMTry this also. It was a fix in non-SP1 but there is a chance it wight work for you.
Open the Regedit
Go to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\explorer.exe\Drives\
You will see each of the drive on your machine. For each of the folders (drives) add New -> Key and name it "DefaultIcon" with capitals and without quotes. Now modify the string, byt double clicking it, and add the path to your desired icon.
It may work, hopefully. Good luck.
I GOT IT!
Those keys are pointing to files that don't exist on my system anymore!!!
The problem is that the icons I use are in the shell32.dll, what route shoudl I use!?!?
OMG, IM SO HAPPY! THIS COULD BE IT!!!!
:rule: (Y) :woot: YOSHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! :rule: :rock: :rock:
It's DONE! It's what I explained on my last post!!!
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING SO DAMNED GREAT!
I LOVE YOU ALL!
*does a happy dance to her long lost icons*
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Your welcome. Glad that your icons are now working.